What's happening in here?

[Synthlight]

(yes... double posting to let you guys know I am going to go watch a movie with my son and will be back afterwards.. I want to read every single response when I return. Also, everyone feel free to throw out ideas regardless of if they are thought through or not.)

[Crazyjayde]

I'll step up for Noname (my brother) to say he's done tremendous work handling and gathering song and in-game data information (corrections, permissions, wiki etc.) but have felt no impact for doing so since the start. I've personally dropped in to help when I could even though it's hard to keep up with him and generally felt the same. A handful (bmah, prawn, hi19, goldstinger, eze) were also keen to help push the thing forward. The wiki was built basically to showcase the changes that could be implemented. It's basically ghost-maintenance and kind of a statement to our involvement and interest with the site.

[noname219]

About the batch/queue being stuck, here's the idea :
1. Create a new small engine that any users can upload their simfiles (make someone review them before to check if they have permission - or create an automatic system if you have the courage to)
2. Only veterans will have access to this engine, they can play each files and give a note on the files they like (or add comments if they see something that can be improved), scores are not counted
3. Take the 3-4 best files every week or keep the best ones for tournaments

What this will do...
-No limit on batches anymore
-A larger variety of files
-Give a meaning to the veteran title and involve them into the batch process
-Encourage people to actually be interested in getting the veteran title
-Plus a lot more I'm not thinking right now...

Also, people won't be able to create 50 accounts to upvote their submissions because of the veteran title thing.

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by noname219

Plus a lot more I'm not thinking right now.

Community involvement

[Frank Munoz]

Originally Posted by noname219

About the batch/queue being stuck, here's the idea :
1. Create a new small engine that any users can upload their simfiles (make someone review them before to check if they have permission - or create an automatic system if you have the courage to)
2. Only veterans will have access to this engine, they can play each files and give a note on the files they like (or add comments if they see something that can be improved), scores are not counted
3. Take the 3-4 best files every week or keep the best ones for tournaments

What this will do...
-No limit on batches anymore
-A larger variety of files
-Give a meaning to the veteran title and involve them into the batch process
-Encourage people to actually be interested in getting the veteran title
-Plus a lot more I'm not thinking right now...

Also, people won't be able to create 50 accounts to upvote their submissions because of the veteran title thing.

Interesting. It'd be nice if we could put a rating system in the engine itself (4/5 arrows) to see who likes what.
only downside to it is
-some vets may not take it so seriously
-might be too much privilege for vets to be able to play files before others
(though it's not like we release the charts a week after getting votes in)
(we can also have the testing open for a week, every week. So it'll be two songs added in game. And two new songs to test or something)

edit: It doesnt have to be a final say in what gets in the game, but it can help wash out the bad files from the good. making the workload for the advanced judging team easier.
So, as you said, it gets the community more involved and feel just that much more needed/important in the future of FFR WITHOUT the added pressure of being an admin.